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arch of the Maronites, among whom Jie introduced tho 
life of tile Gregorian calendar, and died about the 
year 1641. 
GEORGE OF Trebisond (in Latin Trapezvntins), 
a learned Greek, horn in 1395 in the ifie of Crete, of a 
family originally from Trcbilbnd, whence he chofe to 
take his defignation. lie came to Italy about , the year 
1420, and learned the Latin language under Vittorino 
da Feltre. His patron v\as Francis Barbaro, a noble of 
Venice, and a great promoter of letters, through whofe 
means he was invited to a profelforfliip of Greek at Vi¬ 
cenza. Thence he removed to V'enice, vvhere he ac¬ 
quired great reputation as a grammarian and inftrutfor 
in Grecian eloquence. In 1437, he obtained an invita¬ 
tion from pope Eugenius IV. to fettle at Rome. Dur¬ 
ing the time of that pontiff h ‘ was occupied in teaching 
rhetoric and philofophy, and alfo in tranfiating feveral 
ancient Greek authors into Latin. Pope Nicholas V. 
continued to employ him for lome time; but fulling un¬ 
der the difpleafure of the pope, he was obliged to de¬ 
part from Rome. He took refuge in 1452 at Naples, 
where he was gracioufy received by king Alphonfo. 
In 1459 he was at Venice, where he pief nted to the 
doge his verfion of Plato’s book on Laws, and was en¬ 
gaged as a profeflbr of belles-lettres. From that city 
he failed, in 1464, to his native ifland cf Crete, and 
thence palled to Conllantinople. Upon his return to 
Italy, he found his fcholar Paul II. in tiie pontifical 
chair, which induced him again to vifit Rome. From 
lome unknown caulc; however, he incurred the difplea¬ 
fure of the pope, who imprifoned him for four mon'hs 
in the-caftle of St. Angelo. He was at that time much 
debilitated by age, yet he lived many years longer, and 
furvived his faculties, The year of his deceafe was 
probably about 1480. He was a very voluminous wri¬ 
ter, and contributed largely towards the introduftion 
of Greek literature in the weft. He tranflated into La¬ 
tin, Eulebius’s Evangelic Preparation; feveral w rks 
of Cyril of Alexandria, of Gregory Nyffen, of Nazian- 
zen, aiid.of John Ciiryfoftom ; many pieces of Ariftotle, 
Plato on Laws, Ptolemy’s Almageft and Centiloquium, 
and an Oration of Demolthenes. Fiis tranflations were 
at firft in great efteem ; but fince a more accurate know¬ 
ledge of the Greek has obtained, they have been found 
very deficient in exaClnefs and fidelity. He alfo com- 
pofed many works; of which are, De Arte Rhetorka, 
Lib. V. firft primed at Venice in 1470 ; Reflections and 
Commentaries on fotne Orations of Cicero ; Letters; 
Orations ; and, many pieces in controverfy. Many of 
Iiis writings ftill remain in manufeript. 
GEORGE, I. II. and III. illuftrious kings of Eng¬ 
land. See the article England, vol. vi. p. 713, 726, 
727, &c. 
GEORGE LAKE, or Lake George, in Ealt Flo¬ 
rida, is a dilation of the river St. Juan, or St.John, 
and called alfo Great Lake. It is about fifteen miles 
wide, and generally about fifteen or twenty feet deep, 
excepting at the entrance of the river, where lies a bar, 
which carries eight or nine feet v/ater. The lake is 
beautified with two or three fertileiflands. The largeft 
is about two miles broad, and commands a moft delight¬ 
ful and excenlive profpeCf of the waters, iilands, eaft 
and weft ftiores of the lake, the capes, the bay and 
Mount Royal; and to the fouth the view is very exten- 
five. Here are evident marks of a large town cf the 
aborigines, and the ifland appears to have been once th.e 
chofen refidence of an Indian prince. On the feite of 
this ancient town ftands a very pompous Indian mount, 
or conical pyramid of earth, from which runs in a ftraight 
line a grand avenue or Indian highway, through a mag¬ 
nificent grove of magnolias, live oaks, palms, and orange 
trees, terminating at the verge of a large, green, levd, 
favanna. Fiom fragments dug up, it appears to have 
been a thickly-inhabited town. 
GEORGE LAKE, or Lake George, fituated in 
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to the fouthwavd of Lake Champlain, and its waters lie 
about one hundred feet higher. The portage between 
the two I kes is a mile and a half; but with a fmall ex¬ 
pence might be reduced to fixty yards ; and with one 
or two locks might be made navigable through for bat- 
tenx. It is a moft beautiful collection of water; thirty- 
fix miles long, and fiom one to leven wide. It embo- 
foms more than 200 iflands, fome fay 365; very few of 
which are any thing more than barren rocks, covered- 
with heath, and a few cedar, fpruce, and hemlock, trees, 
and flirubs, and abundance of rattle-fnakes. On each 
fide it is fkirted by prodigious mountains; from w'hich 
large quantities of red cedar are annually carried to 
New'York for fhip-timber. The lake is full of fithes, 
and fome of the beft kind, as the blacker Ofwego bafs, 
alfo large fpeckled trouts. It was called Lake Sacra¬ 
ment by the French, who, in former times, were at the 
pains to procure this water for facramental ufes in all 
their ciuirches in Canada : hence yuobably it derived 
its name, The remains of Fort George ftand at the 
fouth end of tlic lake, about fourteen miles north by 
weft of Fort Edward, on Hudfon river. The famous 
fort of Ticonderoga, which flood at the north fide of 
the outlet of the lake, where it difeharged its waters 
into lake Champlain, is now in ruins. See Ticon¬ 
deroga. 
GEORGE-NO'BLE, / A gold coin of Hen. VIII. 
— George-roblcs at fix ftiillings and eight-pence. Leake .—^ 
The gold coins of Henry the Eighth were fovereigns, 
lialf-fovereigns, rials, half and quarter rials, angels, 
angclets, and quarter-angels, George-noblcs, forty-penny 
pieces, crowns of the double role, and half-crowns. Leake. 
GEORGE’S (St.), and other places thus named, fee 
Saint George. 
GEORGE’S TOWN, a town of Scotland, in the 
county ofinvernefs: thirty-fix miles north-north-eall 
of Inverary, and th.irty-feven north-w'ell of Stirling. 
GEOR'GHsNBERG, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Oppeln : nine miles north of Beiuhen. 
GEOR'GENBURG, a town of Pruffian Lithuania : 
two miles fouth of Infterburg. 
GEOR'GENTFIAL, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Upper Saxony, and principality of Gotha ; fix 
miles fouth of Gotha. 
GEOR'GETOWN, a town of the American States, 
in Suffex county^, Delaware, fituated fi.xteen miles wefl- 
fouth-weft of Lewiftown, and one hundred and three 
fouth of Philadelphia. It has lately been made the 
feat of the county courts. 
GEOR'GETOWN, a poft-town of the American 
States, in Maryland, fituated in Kent county, on the 
eaft fide of Chefapeak bay. It is nine miles from the 
mouth of the river Saffafras, being feated on the fouth 
fide oppofite to Frederic: fixty miles nortli-eaft of 
Chefter, and fixty-five fouth-weft of Philadelphia. 
GEOR'GETOWN, a town of the American States, 
in Fayette county, Pennfylvania, fituated on the fouth- 
eaft fide of Monongahela river, at the mouth of Geo.'‘ge’s 
creek. Here a number of velfels are annually built for 
the trade to the weftern country. It lies fixteen miles 
fouth-weft of Union. 
GEOR'GETOWN, a poft-town and port of entry of 
the American States, in Montgomery county, Mary, 
land, in the territory of Columbia. It is pleafantly fi¬ 
tuated on a number of fmall hills, upon the northern 
bank of Potowmack river ; bounded eaftward by Rock 
creek, which feparates it from Waftiington city, and lies 
four miles from the capitol, and eight north of Alex¬ 
andria. The Roman catholics have eftabliflied a col¬ 
lege here for the promotion of general literature, which 
is at prefent in a very fiourilhing ftaie. The building 
being found inadequate to contain the number of ftu. 
dents that applied, a large addition has been made to it, 
Georgetown carries on a confiderable trade with Europe 
and the Well. Indies., It is forty.fix miles fouth-weft; 
